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In total we estimate this exercise will take 60 minutes.
Aims: • To introduce participants to the subject of delegation. • To explore what constitutes effective and ineffective delegation. • To consider best practice when delegating. • To identify some pitfalls to avoid when delegating.
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Time: The exercises in this module can be completed within 40 minutes. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 60 minutes to complete the module.
Aims: • To introduce participants to the subject of delegation. • To explore what constitutes effective and ineffective delegation. • To consider best practice when delegating. • To identify some pitfalls to avoid when delegating.
Group Size: This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 15 participants.
Useful For: Team Leaders and managers.
You'll Need: • Plenty of blank sheets of A4 paper.
Remote/Virtual Delivery: There is a Remote Delivery version of this module available in Trainers’ Library.
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Even with my poor amateur dramatic skills then this is a great exercise. It is fun to run, energises the group and as with all TL exercises generates powerful discussion and learning points. Have used this for years and everyone is always so proud of their boats and often take them home!
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Emma Wynne
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This session was brilliant. Such a visual and real activity that got everyone understanding how to effectively delegate. The frustration of so many of the delegates allowed for a very amusing activity which was enjoyed by all.
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This activity worked brilliantly for stirring up responses.
I was very vague about what was expected in the boat building activity and then immediately made myself unavailable. The end result was really interesting - some delegates were so irritated they couldn't ask questions and with was such little information to go on they refused to build a boat. They felt it was a waste of time trying, because they just didn't know enough to do a good enough job. Brilliant for generating learning points.
Great thing was, there was an aeroplane in the fleet of boats, on the basis that, 'I know how to make a paper plane so I'd prefer to do that well, than make a bad boat'
This drove some really interesting behaviours.
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Julia Anyan
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I was delivering a course on delegation and needed to emphasise the point of poor delegation to the group that was in the training. This activity is excellent to do this. Sink or Swim is based around an imaginary organisation called Bob’s boats, where delegates are given A4 paper with little clear instruction and asked to build boats. The poor instructions and the role play that is used to demonstrate a lack of enthusiasm for their efforts is a great way to demonstrate how delegation should not be done. Everyone who did the exercise really enjoyed it, and it really made the delegates think about how delegation could be improved.
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Shaun Gagie
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It is always popular with delegates and shows brilliantly how poor delegation can lead to problems including frustration, confusion and most importantly not getting the job done that was wanted. It demonstrates the important learning points whilst being great fun – a brilliant mix. We have also used this for train the trainer courses in terms of not training people properly.
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Emma Wynne
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Just a few thoughts on 'Sink or Swim'. I ran the exercise as part of a section on delegation with a group of team leaders - all of whom had expressed an interest in improving their delegation skills. The first section requires minimal materials - handouts, a supply of plain paper - and is easy to set up. After the initial shock, the delegates threw themselves into [the exercise] with varying degrees of success and enthusiasm while I was 'out to lunch'. The review of the exercise was very effective, bringing out how not to do it and for generating thoughts on more effective means of delegation. The next phase was an evaluation of what successful delegators do. This worked well with the review slides supplied with the exercise. The final part (the story around the Tsunami) worked well as a reminder about setting boundaries and empowering delegatees. I found the exercise took about forty-five minutes. At the end I also added some discussion and slides around the benefits of delegation and reasons why we don't delegate. These generated some 'lively' discussions. In future courses, I may have these discussions, before the exercise. All in all a really good exercise for delegates to experience and think about delegation. Thanks Trainers Library!
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Nigel Baynes
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I've used Bob's Boats which was a successful excercise for Delegation and left many of the participants actually wanting to finish making their boats after the course had finished! It was a good excercise to get everyone involved and participating and helped them understand the importance of always making sure that the tasks delegated have been followed up.
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Bob's Boats always, always gets the most amazing response. One client I visit where I used it about 3 years ago I still get comments "here's Bob's or Burton's Boats". What fantastic recall.
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Time:
In total we estimate this exercise will take 45 minutes.
Aims: • To understand why we delegate. • To understand how to delegate effectively.
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Time: The exercise in this module can be completed in about 15 minutes. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing about 30-45 minutes for this module.
Aims: • To understand why we delegate. • To understand how to delegate effectively.
Group Size: This module can be used with groups of up to 25 participants.
Useful For: Staff at all levels.
You'll Need: • A supply of Lego, with at least 15 large pieces for each team of 3-5 participants.
Remote/Virtual Delivery: There is a Remote Delivery version of this module available in Trainers’ Library - Building an Understanding of Delegation .
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Time:
In total we estimate this exercise will take 120 minutes.
Aims: • To agree the important principles of effective delegation. • To review and learn from the experience of being delegated to. • To recognise potential barriers to delegation. • To prepare a checklist for effective delegation. • To identify tasks that can’t be delegated. • To plan for delegation.
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Time: The exercises in this module can be completed within 60 minutes. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing 120 minutes to complete the module.
Aims: • To agree the important principles of effective delegation. • To review and learn from the experience of being delegated to. • To recognise potential barriers to delegation. • To prepare a checklist for effective delegation. • To identify tasks that can’t be delegated. • To plan for delegation.
Group Size: This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 25 participants.
Useful For: Supervisors and junior managers.
You'll Need: Nothing other than the materials provided.
Notes: A useful discussion based exercise that encourages participants to really think about when to delegate, why to delegate and when not to delegate.
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I have used this exercise in management development programmes and it generates some very interesting discussion, revealing a great deal about how and what managers delegate. For the statements exercise I copied the statements onto pieces of card and asked them to sort the cards into 4 piles. This makes it easier for me to 'eavesdrop' on groups and see what decisions they have already made. I give them the sheet at the end to make any notes.
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Helen Walker
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Time:
In total we estimate this exercise will take 55 minutes.
Aims: • To highlight the importance of time management. • To introduce some of the key aspects of effective time management.
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Time: The exercise in this module can be completed within 35 minutes. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing about 55 minutes for this module.
Aims: • To highlight the importance of time management. • To introduce some of the key aspects of effective time management.
Group Size: This module is suitable for use with groups of up to 25 participants.
Useful For: Staff up to junior management.
You'll Need: Nothing other than the materials provided.
Notes: We have suggested running this exercise as a group exercise using flipcharts. If you prefer you can ask participants to complete the exercise individually. The handout includes a blank task list they can use to schedule and plan their time if working alone.
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This worked so well. I had a global HR team of 50 people who had never worked together before, so it had to work as an icebreaker, collaboration, communication and time management exercise. It paid off; within seconds they were all desperate to get stuck in. I re-worked it slightly as these people do not work together, so I took out the work out your own priorities for the week bit.
I added in, that they must prioritise some wellbeing time for themselves, i.e. 2 tea breaks and a lunch every day. They were not allowed to add time on to their day and they had to also factor in some 'me time'. This really worked for them to get to know each other better too. I also interrupted them a couple of times, explaining that they will get interrupted in their day, I asked them to think of things that Brian had forgotten, this really worked well in the feedback, as they take for granted that when people hand things over they do not have time to check if everything was thought of.
One team decided to outsource the whole wedding to someone who was qualified to do the work as they were not and wanted to ensure the customer got the best wedding ever.
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Karon Campbell
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I used this exercise as part of a time management course to help reinforce the importance of managing time.I had 7 delegates so we had a group with of 4 and a group of three. Both groups completed the exercise in the allocated time of 30 minutes using different approaches. They all enjoyed the exercise as it was not work related however, it did reinforce the main purpose of the course which was how to plan and prioritise more effectively. I would definitely recommend this exercise.
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Shirley Palmer
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I started our Time Management session with this activity. It made for a great ice breaker as the teams debated how to change the schedule. The information offered in the trainer notes were very useful. I went through the schedule bit by bit and it proved interesting the other methods that the delegates would use.
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I used The Wedding Planner exercise at the end of the session to summarise what we had learnt regarding time management, prioritisation and organisation. I split them into two groups of three and gave them half an hour to work out what they were going to do. They seemed to struggle a bit at first and get in a bit of debate how they should organise it. They suggested afterwards that they would have liked some scissors to chop the tasks up and move things round (why didn’t they ask!) After half an hour we discussed what they had come up with and both groups had done it slightly differently. They both understood though that they could delegate tasks and lump similar things together to get things done quicker. In particular they saved time by not travelling so much. Again we linked this back to their role and they thought about how they could organise their own time better.
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I used the Wedding Planner as a group exercise in an Assessment Centre. I was looking for an exercise that would require the candidates to show their planning, organising, decision-making and communication skills (amongst other competencies); this exercise is ideal because it covers all those bases. It was run as per the brief and I followed it up with some additional reflective questions. I was able to get exactly what I needed for the purposes of selection and I would recommend it as an exercise in this context too. Thanks Trainers’ Library – it meant I didn’t have to come up with a whole new exercise from scratch!
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We completed the Wedding Planner in a Time Management session recently, it was a fun and fantastic way to show how to priorotise. All of the delegates were female and really played up to the role, however I am sure that men would be just as receptive due to the nature of the brief.
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I've used 'The Wedding Planner' and it went really well in a time management session for Team leaders. They enjoyed the opportunity to work through a scenario that wasn't work related, yet could still highlight the pitfalls that they themselves make during their working day.
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Time:
In total we estimate this exercise will take 90 minutes.
Aims: • To understand the importance of delegating authority appropriately to other colleagues. • To introduce the Tannenbaum and Schmidt Continuum as a method of deciding what levels of authority to delegate.
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Time: The exercise in this module can be completed in about 55 minutes. In total, allowing for discussion, we recommend allowing about 90 minutes for this module.
Aims: • To understand the importance of delegating authority appropriately to other colleagues. • To introduce the Tannenbaum and Schmidt Continuum as a method of deciding what levels of authority to delegate.
Group Size: This module can be used with groups of up to 25 participants.
Useful For: Those who have responsibility for other staff, or who will do very soon.
You'll Need: • One set of cards for every team of 2-3 participants. • Blu-tack.
Remote/Virtual Delivery: There is a Remote Delivery version of this module available in Trainers’ Library.
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A nice way to introduce a management styles model and consider the effectiveness of a particular case study.
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Lisa Lester
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